Month: September 2017

Kirk Lehneis, Chief Operating Officer of New York Life Investment Management’s MainStay Funds unit, has now also been appointed President thereof.

Willis Towers Watson has appointed Jacco Heemskerk is to head up their Investment Consulting Team in the Netherlands.

Pensioenfonds Gasunie has named Janneke Hermes to succeed Cees Pisuisse as Chairman.

Alecta has hired Hans Sterte as their permanent CIO, filling the vacancy created when Per Frennberg left in May. Sterte, moves from a similar position in Skandia, and takes over from the interim CIO, Tony Persson.

Allianz Global Investors has appointed Sjoerd Angenent Director of Business Development for the Benelux region, institutional market, an area they are looking to grow.

Marcel Jeucken, PGGM’s MD for Responsible Investment, has announced his intention to leave the pension fund service provider to set himself up as an independent adviser in responsible investment. Frank Roeters van Lennep, CIO for Private Markets will take over Jeucken’s role in the interim.

David Whitehair has been appointed Head of Franklin Resources Inc’s Defined Contribution Business in the UK. He was previously a senior business development manager at Fidelity International.

Michel Meert has been appointed Global Head of HSBC Global Asset Management’s Client Solutions and Consultant Relations. Meert’s responsibilities will include aligning the regional consultant relations team with sales and client Strategy teams globally. He will report to Brian Heyworth, Global Head of Client Strategy and be based in London.

Jill Barber has been appointed Global Head of Institutional at Jupiter Asset Management where she will focus on expanding the institutional customer base both in the UK and internationally. She will report to Nick Ring, global head of Distribution.

Unigestion has appointed Paul Osborne as Director, UK Institutional Clients, where he will focus on UK corporate pension schemes and insurers.

Family Office

GBS Finanzas has hired Arturo Perera as Chief Commercial Officer and Business Developer for its family office branch where he takes responsibility for leading the commercial area of the business, and developing and widening their client base. He moves from atl Capital where he was Head of Private Banking of the Madrid office.

Hedge Funds

Aquila Capital has hired Fabian Dori as quantitative strategist and portfolio manager in its Systematic Trading Group, their team that manages Aquila Capital’s quantitative strategies investing in liquid financial markets.

York Capital Management partner, Ronald Sofer, will leave to establish his own hedge fund, set up with funding from York Capital founder Jamie Dinan and co-Chief Investment Officer Christophe Aurand.

Algebris Investments, has hired Luca Mori and Federica Bombello to expand their reach in Italian equities. They both move from Zenit where Mori was Chief Investment Officer and Bombelli, was an Assistant Portfolio Manager focused on Italian equities.

IBD / Capital Markets

Simon Walker has been hired as head of loan markets and syndicate at Mizuho Americas. Walker, was previously at UBS.

Nomura’s Global Head of Global Market Structuring, John Goff is also taking on the roles of Head of Global Finance for Asia ex-Japan and Acting Head of DCM Asia ex-Japan. This change happens immediately.

Simon Derrick has left Deutsche Bank where he was Director in Loan Syndications and is expected to move to Standard Chartered.

Insurance

Naveed Irshad, Manulife Singapore’s CEO has been appointed Head of North America legacy business from the beginning of next year.

Stuart Harrison has retired as CEO of AXA Hong Kong and has been replaced by AXA Asia Life CEO, Etienne Bouas-Laurent.

PVI Sun Life Insurance Company, has named Larry Madge as CEO where he will handle the growth of their Vietnamese business. He was previouslythe company’s Global Chief Actuary based at their Canadaian headquarters.

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty has named David Warfel as Head of Aviation, North America replacing Mike Hansen, who was promoted to global head of aviation earlier this year.

Investment Consultants

Jay McNamara has been named Global Head of Real Estate at MSCI Inc and also joins the executive team. McNamara, who has been with MSCI for fifteen years will be succeeded by Jeremy Baskin, from AXA Rosenberg Equities.

Meketa Investment Group has named Paola Nealon as a Senior Vice President. Nealon who was previously an Executive with Oregon State Treasury, will serve as a consultant for Taft Hartley, endowment and public fund sponsors, including investment policy design, asset allocation modeling, fund performance analysis, and asset class education.

Charles Payne has been appointed as an investment consultant at Gravis Capital Management. The ex-Fidelity director will provide Gravis with support on portfolio management and construction.

Private Banking / Wealth Management

RBC has hired Steven Altholtz an advisor with approximately $276 million in client assets under management, from Morgan Stanley. He will join the regional broker-dealer’s offices in Florham Park, New Jersey.

Carla L. Furuno CIMA, CPWA has joined BNY Mellon Wealth Management as Regional President in their Newport Beach office where she will manage all portfolio management and new business development activities within Greater Orange County.